In the tradition of Blow
and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City,
The Last Pirate is a vivid, haunting,
and often hilarious memoir recounting the life of Big Tony, a family man who
joined the biggest pot ring of the Reagan era and exploded his life in the
process. Three decades later, his son came back to put together the pieces.

As he relates his father’s rise from hey-man hippie dealer
to multi-ton smuggler extraordinaire, Tony Dokoupil tells the larger history of
marijuana and untangles the controversies still stirring furious debate today.
He blends superb reportage with searing personal memories, presenting a probing
chronicle of pot-smoking, drug-taking America from the perspective of the
generation that grew up in the aftermath of the Great Stoned Age. Back then,
everyone knew a drug dealer. The Last
Pirate is the story of what happened to one of them, to his family, and in
a pharmacological sense, to us all.

The Last Pirate is
a cultural portrait of marijuana’s endless allure set against the Technicolor
backdrop of South Florida in the era of Miami
Vice. It’s a public saga complete with a real pirate’s booty: more than a
million dollars lost, buried, or stolen—but it’s also a deeply personal
pursuit, the product of a son’s determination to replant the family tree in
richer soil.

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Quotes & Awards

“Looking to cast light on a lost age of outlaw heroics, NBC News senior
writer Dokoupil digs into the adventures of a major drug smuggler of the
1970s and ’80s: his father…While the author does show how the drug culture has grown up and settled
down, his father’s story and his own outshine the large-picture history
and bring it up close and personal, with humor, sensitivity, and a keen
eye for the surprising detail.”

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